David Lang Wins Pulitzer Prize

David Lang was awarded a 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Music. Lang's winning composition was The Little Match Girl Passion, which was co-commissioned by the Carnegie Hall Corporation and The Perth Theater and Concert Hall. The work premiered for the vocal ensemble Theatre of Voices and its Director, Paul Hillier, on October 25, 2007 in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York City and is published by G. Schirmer, Inc.